Theatre
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Matilda in Ft. Lauderdale
Touring Production Playing South Florida
By: - Apr 26th, 2017Matilda dazzles in national touring production. Young and young at heart will marvel at Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical which features eye popping visuals and engrossing action
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Outer Critics Circle
2016-2017 Award Nominations
By: - Apr 26th, 2017The Outer Critics Circle nominees provide a preview of the front runners for Tony Awards. The most nominations went to Anastasia – 13; Hello, Dolly! – 10; The Band's Visit – 7; Come From Away – 7; Indecent – 6; The Little Foxes – 6; Groundhog Day – 5; A Bronx Tale – 4; The Front Page – 4; War Paint – 4; Bandstand - 3; A Doll's House – 3; Holiday Inn – 3; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – 3; Oslo – 3; Sweat - 3
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Beckett in Boca Raton
Waiting for Godot at Sol Theatre Proves Powerful
By: - Apr 24th, 2017Evening Star Production's 'Waiting for Godot' blends darkness and frivolity. A strong cast anchors a commendable production at South Florida venue.The deft production is marked by strong physical comedy and palpable despair.
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Linda Vista by Tracy Letts
World Premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf
By: - Apr 19th, 2017Tracey Letts is a master of dialogue and " Linda Vista" sparkles with some terrific character speeches, such as Wheeler’s discourse on his taste in music in act one. He likes jazz and the Talking Heads and hates Radiohead. “I’m a misanthropic piece of shit,” he says later. The play is having its World Premiere at Steppenwolf in Chicago.
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Off-Broadway Hit in South Florida
Comic Musical Thriller Playing Stage Door Theatre
By: - Apr 17th, 2017Musical comedy thriller “No Way to Treat a Lady could be funnier. Lead actor James Hansen misinterprets role in Ft. Lauderdale-area production. The staging, however, features entertaining over-the-top theatricality.
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WAM Remounts Gunderson's Emilie
Art Meets Activism in the Berkshires
By: - Apr 13th, 2017This past weekend WAM Theater closed out a re-mount production of Lauren Gunderson’s “Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet defends her life tonight”, and donated a portion of the proceeds to the Flying Cloud Institute in support of science summer camp scholarships for girls.
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ATCA Honors Playwrights
Awards Presented at Humana Festival
By: - Apr 12th, 2017Man in the Ring and The Ice Treatment are honored by theater critics. Michael Cristofer wins Steinberg award for Man in the Ring. Nate Eppler receives Osborn award for The Ice Treatment
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Figaro 90210
Direct from Hollywood to Broadway (Off)
By: - Apr 12th, 2017Figaro 90210 may mess with Mozart, but he would have loved the result. The updated opera is hilarious. All the singing actors bring to their individual characters voices that are rich and illuminating. Action is packed with gesture, silly and often touching.
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Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin: Winterreise
'Trip in Winter' by New Group: Exil
By: - Apr 11th, 2017The Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin continues to present issues that reflect the 'now and how' of living circumstances in present day Berlin. The newly founded theatre group Exil will be part of the Gorki ensemble for two years, where it will create theatre events in dialogue with their own sensibilities. 'Winterreise' (Trip in Winter) on April 8th, by the in-house Israeli director Yael Ronen, presented the first project with seven actors and actresses, who cannot perform in their home countries of Syria, Palestine and Afghanistan.
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World Premiere of Play Near Ft. Lauderdale
James L. Beller's Son at Island City Stage
By: - Apr 11th, 2017Son, a new play with a shocking development, is gripping but it is still a work in progress. The performers shine in world premiere production in South Florida
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Jersey Boys on Tour
Production in Miami Through Sunday
By: - Apr 08th, 2017Audience still marvels at Jersey Boys music, a performance marked by enthusiastic, sustained applause. Jersey Boys equity touring production is touring U.S., Canada with a too brief stop in Miami.
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Garson Kanin Play Born Yesterday
Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theatre
By: - Apr 06th, 2017Going to see Remy Bumppo Theatre’s sparkling production of the Garson Kanin play, Born Yesterday, was a re-introduction to a play that’s rich and relevant. Not fluffy. Funny and witty with a definite edge.
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In to America by Griffin Theatre
World Premiere in Chicago
By: - Apr 05th, 2017In to America, the world premiere production by Griffin Theatre, is America’s origin story, a documentary-style production that tells our history of immigration and multiculturalism, in all its glorious and cruel aspects. William Massolia, Griffin’s artistic director, has compiled a richly researched story of 400 years of American history.
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LBJ Play in Miami
Actors Playhouse Goes All the Way
By: - Apr 03rd, 2017A riveting All the Way in South Florida. Matlock star triumphs as LBJ with strong performances all around.
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Arcadia in South Florida
Play Of Ideas at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Apr 01st, 2017Tom Stoppard's play is a mental exercise. Cast excels at Arcadia a time traveling play on-stage for a month.
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Adams and Riley at Carnegie Hall
Saved by the Bells
By: - Mar 31st, 2017For the past half century our ears and minds have been assaulted with sound. Many of us have ceased to hear. Yet modern composers are creating music to which you must listen to enjoy. They are opening up our ears. This spring, in the intimate Zankel Hall, Carnegie is presenting three generations of contemporary composers led by curator Steve Reich. There is no better way to start listening again. No matter how minimal the style, this music is saved by the marimba and vibraphone bells.
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Sweat by Lynn Nottage
Award Winning Play Finally Reaches Broadway
By: - Mar 28th, 2017Like her Pulitzer-Prize-winning Ruined, Lynn Nottage developed Sweat from many on-the-spot interviews with people in this predicament, whose stories and comments flesh out the drama that connects and thrusts home its meaning and impact. it’s moving intact to Studio 54 with only one cast change.
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Dry Powder at Florida's GableStage
Play Pits Employees vs. Bottom Line
By: - Mar 27th, 2017A peak into high-stakes financial world with Southeastern premiere of 'Dry Powder' in Florida . GableStage scores a hit with 'Dry Powder'
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Lovesport by Tony Padilla
Pearl McManus Theatre in Paslm Springs
By: - Mar 24th, 2017In award winner Tony Padilla's latest comedy “Lovesport”, now performing on the Pearl McManus Theatre stage at the Palm Springs Woman’s Club, Padilla takes a look at gay marriage from the point of view of one couple who took the marriage plunge and one couple that didn’t.
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Ensemble Studio Theatre Presents Spill
British Petroleum's Business as Usual
By: - Mar 24th, 2017Spill makes clear its theatrical origins in the first minutes. The wife of one of the men killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowup is being interviewed. Slowly characters appear on stage and speak in bits and pieces about the events she describes. The cacophonous chorus crescendos and then bursts into flames.
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Tech Talk Informs Washburn's 10 out of 12
Tedium of a Play Within a Play's the Thing
By: - Mar 24th, 2017At some two hours and forty five minutes Anne Washburn's 10 out of 12 at Chicago's Theatre Wit is a tad too long. But the real time tedium replicates the point of this play which reveals how a play takes its final form through a technical rehearsal. Equity rules limit actors to working for twelve hours with a two hour break for dinner. If you see a lot of theatre this may be a fascinating experience. If not , those looking for an evening of casual entertainment, then caveat emptor.
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Something Rotten's On the Road
Parody of Shakespeare at Broward Center for the Performing Arts
By: - Mar 23rd, 2017"Something Rotten!," the Broadway hit, is on tour with a stop at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
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946 by Kneehigh at St. Ann's Warehouse
Emma Rice Directs Michael Morpurgo's Tale
By: - Mar 22nd, 2017The enchantments of a Kneehigh Production directed by Emma Rice are so various, unusual and satisfying that we suggest you high tail it to Dumbo and catch the show.
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Lauren Yee Wins Francesca Primus Prize
American Theatre Critics Association Recognizes Emerging Female Playwrights
By: - Mar 20th, 2017Lauren Yee wins award for Emerging Female Playwrights. ATCA/ Primus Foundation recognizes playwright for her use of language. Yee was selected from 26 applicants by critics.
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A Special Day In Miami Beach
Miami New Drama Stages Play for Dark Times
By: - Mar 20th, 2017Actors triumphantly illustrate and perform in stage version of award-winning Italian film. Chalk up another success to South Florida's Miami New Drama company.
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